On 15 Apr 2005 06:17:02 -0700, "Wayne Knight"
wrote:

(snipped)

You want to raise teacher salaries? Raise the bar to get in.


Good idea. When my daughter and I were doing a year of home schooling
for my grandson, I thought it might be easier all around if I got a
teaching certificate. So I took the test for practice. With no study
and half an hour left at the end of the test, I'd easily made a better
than passing grade. It could have been still better, but I was off on
some of the 'If little Susie slams little Tommy over the head with the
toy locomotive in kindergarten, what do you do about it?' questions.

So the degree has to count, as the state test here isn't worth doggie
doo. This did not fill me with confidence that the next year the
grandson would be sent out among educated folks with much knowledge to
impart to him. Luckily he's in a good school now, as are the
granddaughters, but if you take the local pot luck of schools and
teachers, you _will_ wind up with some people teaching who have not
proven to have knowledge of their subjects and are teaching only out
of a lesson book.

Cyli
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